[PDF] The Little Wonder Horn A New Series Of Stories Told To A Child With Illustrations eBook

Author : Jean Ingelow
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 20,51 MB
Release : 2012-10
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ISBN : 9781458928115

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AS THE CROW FLIES. IV/TRS. HUMPHRIES stood at her dresser, ironing a lady's collar, while her little daughter Mary looked on. The door of her clean kitchen was open, and you might see through it a well-kept garden, full of young spring vegetables, potatoes, onions, and cabbages. Near the house grew some cherry-trees; they were covered with blossom, and under each tree was a beehive. The bees were very lively, bouncing in and out, buzzing and fluttering about the flowers; but the little girl was so quiet, that at last her mother said to her? Why, Polly, has anything gone wrong with you? What makes you so grave this half-holiday? I didn't know I was grave in particular, mother, ' said Polly, with a deep sigh. But Miss Annie was so cross this morning. Miss Annie Nay, then, I'm sure it must have been your own fault?so kind as she is. To think of her coming here on purpose to show you how to do your sums I know you would never have got the prize if she hadn't explained the Rule of Three to you on half-holidays. How did it happen ? She's not often cross. Polly hung her head, and then answered in a doleful voice? She's only a year older than I am. But she's many years wiser, said her mother; she knows a deal more than you do. Tell me how this was. Why, mother, said Polly, with another deep sigh, after school yesterday I was playing at shuttlecock in the meadow at theback of their garden, when she came out and said, 'Now I'll show you about the new rule;' and I just said I couldn't leave off playing so soon. ' Oh, very well, ' she says; then I shall not come out any more; for I want to finish my doll's cloak.' Well, inquired the mother, what next? And so I said, continued Polly, looking a good deal ashamed, I said, ' Just ...

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 19,95 MB
Release : 2024-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3382838257

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1875. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 24,1 MB
Release : 2023-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368820303

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.